Design issues in mobile agent programming systems

Author

Karnik, Neeran M. ; Tripathi, Anand R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

Volume

6

Issue

3

fYear

1998

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

61

Abstract

The article discusses system-level issues and agent programming requirements that arise in the design of mobile agent systems. The authors describe several mobile agent systems to illustrate different approaches designers have taken in addressing these challenges. The following areas are discussed: agent mobility, naming, security issues, privacy and integrity, authentication, authorization and access control, metering and charging mechanisms, programming primitives, agent communication and synchronization primitives, agent monitoring and control primitives, and fault tolerance primitives

Keywords

authorisation; client-server systems; data privacy; naming services; parallel programming; access control; agent communication; agent mobility; agent monitoring; agent programming requirements; authentication; authorization; charging mechanisms; control primitives; design issues; fault tolerance primitives; integrity; metering; mobile agent programming systems; mobile agent systems design; naming; privacy; programming primitives; security issues; synchronization primitives; system-level issues; Access control; Authentication; Authorization; Communication system control; Communication system security; Fault tolerance; Mobile agents; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Privacy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Concurrency, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1092-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4434.708256

Filename

708256